Orff Course

Nashville Orff Summer Certification Course

Metro Nashville Public Schools in partnership with Trevecca University is pleased to offer Nashville Orff Summer Certification Course 2025! Trevecca University will host our course at their downtown Nashville campus in the heart of Music City.

Orff-Schulwerk is “Music for Children,” a way to teach and learn music using poems, rhymes, games, songs, and dances as its foundation. Orff-Schulwerk centers around the development of the whole child, with an emphasis on students as improvisers and performers through creative play, peer collaboration, and joyful music making.

Level I will introduce and develop basic elemental Orff-Schulwerk musicianship, through the study of pentatonic melodies, rhythmic speech, simple accompaniment styles using a variety of classroom instruments, and pathways to improvisation. In addition, Level 1 students will build on the foundation of the Orff-Schulwerk approach through movement, orchestration, composition, and recorder playing.

Level I Information

  • June 2 to June 13, 2025
    • Monday  to  Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
  • Cap for Level 1: 24
  • Registration Cost: $650 (Textbook and materials not included)
  • Location: Trevecca Nazarene University, 333 Murfreesboro Pike, Nashville, TN 37210
Instructors
  • Katie Traxler - Basic Pedagogy
  • Allen Moody - Recorder
  • Linzie Mullins - Movement
Course Directors

Franklin Willis and  Alice Walle

Contact

Alice Walle

Registration Link

Register for the course online.

Registration Deadline

May 16, 2025

 

Faculty Bios

A Moody portrait

Allen Moody

Allen Moody is the Orff Music specialist at Idlewild Elementary where he teaches music to kindergarten through fifth grade students. Under his direction, the Idlewild Recorder Ensemble has performed at the 2014 AOSA National Conference in Nashville, TN and at the TNMEA state conference.

Allen is an active member in the Memphis Chapter of AOSA and is a past president. He currently serves as President of the West Tennessee General Music Education Association. Allen serves as the recorder instructor for summer Orff levels courses. He has presented sessions at the AOSA National Conference and workshops for Orff chapters across the USA. He received his Master’s of Music in Music Education from the University of Memphis in December 2018.

He serves on the Executive Board for Summer at the Scheidt, through the University of Memphis, as a director of their Elementary Music Camp. Allen is a National Board Certified Teacher and CMA Music Teacher of Excellence.

Katie Traxler portrait

Katie Traxler

Katie Traxler teaches K-5 music at Gateway Elementary, a public school in Madison, TN. In addition to teaching music, she leads a chorus, orff and recorder ensembles, and piano classes. Committed to collaboration and arts integration, Traxler works closely with the classroom teachers to maintain a rich curriculum integrating music, movement, drama, and visual art within the social studies, math, and ELA content across all grade levels.

Traxler has worked as a clinician for various organizations in NYC including the Youth Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Weill Institute at Carnegie Hall, and has presented music education workshops for Orff Chapters, School Districts, and Universities across the United States.

She served on the AOSA (American Orff Schulwerk Association) NBT as Region V Rep, is a past president of NYCCAOSA, is currently serving on CORS, and teaches Level I and II Basic Pedagogy for various Orff Teacher Educator programs in the US.

Linzie Mullins portrait

Linzie Mullins

Linzie Mullins (Movement 1, 2, & 3) is extremely honored and excited to be back in Nashville this summer. She is an award-winning Orff Music Specialist in Memphis, TN, where she has taught in both public and private schools for the last 14 years.

She is the current President of the Memphis Chapter of AOSA, serves as the General Music Ed State Chair for TnMEA, and serves as a mentor and curriculum writer for the Memphis-Shelby County Schools District.

Linzie has presented at various workshops locally and nationally, including the First Timers workshop at the national AOSA Conference.